Must read
- Tim Egan, Under My Thumb
- truthout, Pivotal Trans-Pacific Partnership Section Revealed (see here for the govt’s summary page on the TPP)
Should read/listen
- NPR, Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them)
- Matt Taibbi, Campaign 2016: The Dumb Season Starts Early
- Dan Kervick, Three Pillars of Democratic Empowerment
Other things worth reading if you can make the time…
Politics
- Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren says growth of Wall Street banks poses threat of another economic meltdown
- Brad DeLong, “Senator Mitch McConnell: I Knew Samson, Samson Was a Friend of Mine, and You Are No Samson!”
- Dan Drezner, The Conservative Side of the Idea Industry is Broken (look here if you don’t have a subscription)
- Noam Chomsky on political disillusionment (video from 2010 but points still relevant)
Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy, Obama’s Covert Trade Deal (Ed.: What on Earth is the justification for keeping the details of a trade deal secret?)
- Expose the TPP, How the TPP Would Impact American Jobs
- Expose the TPP, How the TPP Would Impact Financial Regulation
- Techdirt, TPP IP Chapter Leaked, Confirming It’s Worse Than ACTA
- Flush the TPP!
Health Care and the Politics Thereof
- Jared Bernstein, Attention Health Care Shoppers!
- Elisabeth Rosenthal, Good Deals on Pills? It’s Anyone’s Guess
- Lori Gottlieb, Daring to Complain About Obamacare (Ten points to the first person who can guess why, even if she has a legitimate complaint, I think her editorial is a bad joke. Clue here.)
- Dean Baker, Obamacare Is Not in Nearly as Much Trouble As Ezra Klein Thinks
- Dean Baker, When It Comes to Obamacare, Businesses Don’t Do What They Say
- Paul Waldman, Shocker: Health-Exchange Websites Can Be Done Right
Military and Veterans Issues
- Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, How Badly Things Are Broken With Our Defense
- Brian Mockenhaupt (2007), I Miss Iraq. I Miss My Gun. I Miss My War.
- Ann Jones, The Silence of the Wounded: What Happens to Soldiers After Leaving the Battlefield
Economics
Climate Change
- Real Climate, From global climate change to local consequences
- Eclectablog, The economic impacts of climate change aren’t something for the future, they’re here NOW
International
- T.O. Molefe, South Africans Didn’t Die for This
- NY Times, Out of Europe’s Jobs Crisis, Voices of the Young
Miscellany
- IEEE Spectrum, Superconducting Video Camera Sees the Universe in Living Color
- Obnoxious Boston Fan, Cherington keeps Red Sox Hot Stove cold
- Chad Finn, The curious and uninformed coveting of
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